President Aoun tells Bloomberg that Northeastern's pioneering new learning model in Silicon Valley is in response to the growing demand for workers with tech training, as the university's educational hub there will help companies' employees retool their skills and explore new fields.

In an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, President Aoun says the university's steady rise is due to strategic investments that have been going on for many years, a rise punctuated by research that recently led to the discovery of a superbug-killing antibiotic.

As the White House prepares its framework for a new college ratings system, President Aoun proposed a series of critical value-indicators for universities to help families have access to more reliable and transparent information for measuring students’ career and personal success.

President Aoun offered his views on the Department of Education’s draft ratings framework for assessing the performance of postsecondary education in a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.